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Penticton Lakers junior boys basketball finishes in fifth at Valley Championship
Coach gives accolades to the whole team for their contribution all season
Penticton Secondary School junior boys Lakers basketball player Owen Labudie pushes the ball up court around a Mount Boucherie Secondary School Bears player during the Valley Championship last weekend in Vernon.

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By Brennan PhillipsSpecial to the Western NewsPenticton’s own CFUZ Radio will have a one hour segment during the 16th Annual Homelessness Marathon on Feb. 22. ‘’By meeting people, by knowing their names and knowing their stories, it changed how I saw things,” said CFUZ membership director Lydia Frederick on her experience with producing the station’s documentary for the previous year’s broadcast.

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Torrential rains and mild temperatures pushed the Grand River in southern Ontario to breach its banks Wednesday, forcing thousands of people from their homes and touching off a search for a missing toddler. Local officials near the town of Orangeville, Ont., were bracing for tragedy as they scoured the swollen river for a three-year-old boy who went missing after the car he was riding in got swept off a washed-out road. Ontario Provincial Police Const.

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Real estate experts say the B.C. government started to build a strong foundation for more affordable housing in Tuesday’s budget, but opinion varies on the expected outcomes. Finance Minister Carole James is trying to ease the province’s housing crisis by introducing a new tax on property speculators, expanding and increasing a tax on foreign homebuyers and spending $6 billion to build affordable housing over the next decade.

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Vernon’s Royal Canadian Legion could close its doors for good if things don’t change. After 91 years as the community’s “keepers of remembrance,” branch 25 president, Bill Balcaen said five members of the executive, including himself, made the “difficult” decision to step down at a recent meeting. “We have reached a point where our dedicated souls and weary bodies can no longer keep pace with the needs of the branch and our community,” he said Tuesday.

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The Independent Investigations Office is clarifying media reports over a Kamloops incident that saw a suspect shot in the back by police in November 2017. According to the IIO, it is not investigating the shots fired by the RCMP officer at Michael Shawn Boyer outside the Tournament Inn.

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Walmart partners online grocery service to bring Vancouver home delivery
Move expands upon similar efforts announced last November to grow home delivery service
Walmart Canada Corp. says it is partnering with an online grocery service to bring home delivery to Vancouver by the summer, as the brick-and-mortar retailer ramps up its effort in the country to compete with Amazon.

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Vehicle down a 90-foot embankment on Highway 5 near Hope early Feb. 20. Emergency crews were able to extricate the driver using a rope rescue. (Chilliwack Search and Rescue)
Driver rescued down 90-foot embankment along Coquihalla
Rope rescue conducted on mutual-aid call with Chilliwack SAR, Hope SAR and Agassiz fire department
Emergency responders from Chilliwack, Agassiz and Hope helped rescue a driver down a steep embankment on Highway 5 near Hope early Tuesday morning.

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It took less than 24 hours to track down two people who allegedly stole a donation jar for a young woman involved in a car accident earlier this month. Cpl. Brian Evans said he arrested two young men at the corner of 7th Avenue and 7th Street (at the main corner down the hill) Tuesday afternoon. He was not able to release their names as they had not yet been formally charged.

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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says he made it “very, very clear” to the chief minister of Punjab that Canada supports a united India and condemns violent extremism, describing repeated allegations from the leader of the predominately Sikh region that Canadian ministers are separatists as misunderstandings and extremely false.

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